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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amidst dwindling state funding and the legislative withdrawal from public university research support, a heightened political process shapes the allocation of scarce tax dollars. This article explores how advocacy within the political process influences funding support for higher education from state legislatures.
Gregory M. Perry +2 more
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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The Influence of Lobbies: Analyzing Group Consensus from a Physics Approach
PhysicsIn this paper, we study the influence of a small group of agents (i.e., a lobby) that is trying to spread a rumor in a population by using the known model proposed by Serge Galam.
Ugo Merlone, Arianna Dal Forno
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Cross-platform opinion dynamics in competitive travel advertising: A coupled networks' insight. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Chen J, Wang H, Chao X.
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.Hydrogen‐powered aviation offers a transformative pathway to zero‐emission flight by eliminating in‐flight CO2 emissions. Key considerations include propulsion systems (fuel cells and hydrogen combustion), cryogenic storage and insulation challenges, infrastructure and cost barriers, and supply‐chain constraints.
Mubasshira +4 more
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Echo chambers and opinion dynamics explain the occurrence of vaccination hesitancy. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2022 Müller J, Tellier A, Kurschilgen M.
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Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal +3 more
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Modelling and predicting online vaccination views using bow-tie decomposition
Royal Society Open ScienceSocial media has become increasingly important in shaping public vaccination views, especially since the COVID-19 outbreak. This paper uses bow-tie structure to analyse a temporal dataset of directed online social networks that represent the information ...
Yueting Han, Marya Bazzi, Paolo Turrini
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Opinion Dynamics Model with Bounded Confidence and the Sleeper Effect. [PDF]
Comput Intell Neurosci, 2022 Wei J, Jia Y, Zhu H, Hong X, Huang W.
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.Efficient water electrolysis in NaBr electrolyte is achieved using TiO2 nanotube supports decorated with Ru nanoparticles. A cooperative “job‐sharing” effect between the TiO2 proton‐storage support that provides protons to the Ru catalyst enhances hydrogen evolution, minimizes Ru demand and polarization losses, and delivers stable performance ...
Matan Sananis +3 more
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